A second apology (this time from Apple)

Here’s Apple CEO Tim Cook apologising for (shock, horror) ‘the debacle’. Good on him. Will it pull the sting?

My first reaction to the shortcomings was to install a bookmark on my home screen for the web app of Google Maps (see below). It seems clear they’re working on it. I’ll be patient, too. Judging from experience, Apple will crunch this and update their (beautiful-looking, more powerful*) Maps app PDQ. That’s my point of view. But then …

Before that I could not believe my luck that as a student at Victoria University I was able to borrow a dual floppy drive SE 40 for the holidays for just a few dollars. The university would effectively lend out the machines from a computer lab. I was stoked.

I also had a workmate, Peter Abernethy, who let me use his Mac Plus with external floppy hard disk drive — he lived just around corner from me — I lived at Owhiro Bay, on the South coast of Wellington.

I’ve used Macs since, and, yeah, sure, PCs at various workplaces which, without exception, have compared badly in terms of industrial design and elegance to Macs. (PC market share notwithstanding.)

That’s been my experience. I’m now happily using a current model MacBook Pro (plugged into a 23″ display a lot of the time) with the current version of OSX 10.8.2 Mountain Lion. It is, I feel, the best system I could choose for my own use and standards.

Through that time, for personal handheld devices I used a Psion Series 3a, then Series 5, a Palm Tungsten, and a Sony Ericsson PE901 — all were pretty well regarded and worked well enough.

But when the iPhone 3G became available I bought one. On launch day. Fantastic.

My current handheld device, the iPhone5 (also acquired on launch day) is an evolutionary step and even better, so far, in terms of hardware and software (iOS6). Perfect? No. So what?

This is just my experience, and informs my conclusions and my views.
Yours will be different.
Tell me about it.

– P

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